Looks like Infinity Ward’s move away from dedicated servers hasn’t helped much in the realm of cheating; the, ahem, main goal of the move.
The Call of Duty hacking website has published a video that shows their latest hack in action. The hack appears when activated, shows the position of all players, reduces recoil on the guns and adds aiming/firing accuracy.
Good thing IWNet’s already banning all those hackers! Oh, wait, they’re not? Oh. Moving on then.
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Torrents of Microsoft COFEE have been springing up everywhere and the hype is ridiculous. Obviously, it’s illegal to pirate software. Furthermore, the EULA for this particular software is limits it’s use to law enforcement officials only. Other than that, most everything else you’ve heard about this stuff is false.
COFEE, or Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a set of tools and a GUI that Microsoft has created to assist undereducated law enforcement officials with basic computer forensics.
An officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device.
This is not some wild, as-seen-on-tv, NSA creation. It’s just a compilation of tools (about 150 or so) for information and evidence gathering. A rootkit and some automation. Most everything included with COFEE is available, in some form, all over the internet.
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I must be living under a rock or something, because I wasn’t even aware that Futuremark (makers of the popular PC benchmarking suite) was in the games biz. Futuremark studios has just released their first in-game trailer for their game, Shattered Horizon, which is an FPS set in space with full range of movement via space suit jet pack type dealios. Check out the trailer for yourself… the graphics are amazing, & the possibilities for in-space fighting and movement definitely got me drooling.
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IW developers have declared that online games of the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will not use dedicated game servers, but rather their own “IWNet” matchmaking service. DICE, developer of the Battlefield series of PC games, has already stated that there will be no such movement on their end of things. I definitely foresee the gaming community getting up-in-arms over IW’s decision.
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This video demonstrates a new orientation feature in Firefox 3.6. Right now it’s only supported on some new Macs and Thinkpads that have the hardware and drivers to expose the information.
I’m sure it won’t be long before other systems with Accelerometers, like HP laptops with “ProtectSmart”, will get some support.
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Microsoft is releasing 13 updates (of which 8 have been deemed “critical”) and Adobe will be releasing an update to plug a zero-day flaw that’s now being actively exploited.
Microsoft’s update day will supposedly be the biggest ever. It will include fixes for the SMB & FTP vulnerabilities. Adobe has (for better or worse) aligned their update schedule to coincide with MS’s monthly releases, & they’re releasing an update to Acrobat & Acrobat reader that will fix a hole whose exploit for the Windows environment tipped up over the weekend.
Updaters to the ready, boys ‘n girls…
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Lots of digging on LinkedIn turned up some interesting info on Windows 8 (which may or may not pan out). Ars details the findings of Windows 8 News, along with a lengthy write up on all of the current info churning in the Windows 8 rumor mill.
A LinkedIn profile, which has already been taken down, for a Robert Morgan, Senior Research & Development at Microsoft, has shone a sliver of light on the possibility of 128-bit support coming to Windows 8.
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Faster than versus mode, three rounds of play per match, and watch out for the Spitter. Left 4 Dead 2′s new mode requires survivors to pickup a specified number of gas cans and fill a generator before the time runs out. Their only complaint was that it was too easy to camp the generator.
You’re still getting all the weapons and desperate give-and-take of switching between Infected and Survivor factions that you would normally have. But at the same time, you’re savoring it in an entirely different, gas-soaked way.
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